Re: [patches] adding accents, fixing encodings, and more textual stuff

Benno Schulenberg
2013-01-31T12:55:26Z

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013, at 19:19, Karel Zak wrote:
> It seems like a problem with
> email encoding, my mutt see the attachments as
>
> 0001-docs-NEWS-add-some-missing-accents- [text/x-patch, base64, us-ascii, 6.3K]

I've forwarded the original mail to myself over a different address,
opened it with Thunderbird, saved the attachments -- they come
out fine. Then I copied the Inbox, opened it with mutt, saved the
attachments -- and they come out mangled. Mutt replaces every
byte between 80 and ff with a question mark (3f). Somehow mutt
assumes that what is inside the base64 is or must be us-ascii, and
enforces this when showing and saving the file. Mutt-bug.

Benno

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